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The mark of slavery : disability, race, and gender in antebellum America / Jenifer L. Barclay

Barclay, Jenifer L. [Verfasser]

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (264 pages) : Illustrations (black and white).

Disability histories

Illinois scholarship online

Also issued in print: 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-252-05261-3 ; 978-0-25-204372-7

NW 8295

 

USA  Schwarze  Behinderung  Sklave  Alltag  Geschichte 1800-1861 

 

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Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy.